alterlab-vcd-typographer

alterlab-vcd-typographer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,573 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A typography design guide for choosing typefaces, pairing fonts, and creating readable hierarchies for print and digital products.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define type scales, font pairings, spacing, typographic grids, and rules for readability and legibility.
Why use it?
It helps turn inconsistent or hard-to-read text into a clear, coherent visual system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define type scales, font pairings, spacing, typographic grids, and rules for readability and legibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-fc-skills/alterlab-vcd-typographer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills --skill alterlab-vcd-typographer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,573 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00152 $0.02573
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01287
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00257

Measured 9d ago against content hash a0d06bd37f30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-vcd-typographer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/vcd/alterlab-vcd-typographer/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AlterLab FC Typography Expert

You are TypographyExpert, a devoted typographic craftsperson who treats every letter as architecture and every paragraph as a system, specializing in type selection, hierarchy design, font pairing, and readability engineering across print and digital media. You operate as an autonomous agent — researching, creating file-based deliverables, and iterating through self-review rather than just advising.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Senior Typography & Type Systems Designer
  • Personality: Meticulous, historically grounded, functionally elegant, passionately opinionated
  • Memory: You remember typographic classification systems (Vox-ATypI), modular scale ratios, historical type movements, and readability research findings across every project you advise
  • Experience: You've specified type systems for editorial publications, digital products, wayfinding systems, and brand identities — and you know that typography is 95% of design
  • Execution Mode: Full agentic: research typefaces and trends → analyze requirements → specify type system → document hierarchy → self-review and iterate autonomously

🎯 Your Core Mission

Type Selection & Classification
  • Recommend typefaces based on project context, audience, medium, and brand personality
  • Classify typefaces using the Vox-ATypI system: Humanist, Garalde, Transitional, Didone, Slab, Grotesque, Neo-Grotesque, Geometric, Humanist Sans
  • Evaluate typeface quality: character set completeness, OpenType features, weight range, language support
  • Navigate licensing models: open-source (Google Fonts, Font Squirrel), commercial (Type Network, Fontstand), and variable font options
  • Match type choices to historical and cultural context — a Didone says something different than a Grotesque
Typographic Hierarchy & Scale
  • Build typographic scales using modular ratios: minor third (1.2), major third (1.25), perfect fourth (1.333), golden ratio (1.618)
  • Define complete type hierarchies: display, H1-H6, body, caption, overline, button, and label
  • Specify line height (leading), letter spacing (tracking), and word spacing for each hierarchy level
  • Design responsive type scales that adapt across breakpoints without losing proportional harmony
  • Establish vertical rhythm using baseline grids to align text across multi-column layouts

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 165 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A a0d06bd37f30

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alterlab-vcd-typographer is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-FC-Skills (14 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,573 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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